Computex describes itself as the largest IT show in Asia. While true, Computex is also a hotbed of new gadgets -- gear you'll see in prototype form, only to show up as finished products at the next Consumer Electronics Show. Here's a photographic tour of some of the cool, useful and just plain odd gadgets and gizmos we saw at this year's Computex.

Take a tour of the weird, wild and, possibly, useful in our visual tour.

Loyd Case came to computing by way of physical chemistry. He began modestly on a DEC PDP-11 by learning the intricacies of the TROFF text formatter while working on his master's thesis. After a brief, painful stint as an analytical chemist, he took over a laboratory network at Lockheed in the early 80's and never looked back. His first "real" computer was an HP 1000 RTE-6/VM system.
In 1988, he figured out that building his own PC was vastly more interesting than buying off-the-shelf systems ad...
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